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"Solar Energy Could Dominate Electricity By 2050: IEA" [1]

"Solar energy could be the top source of electricity by 2050, aided by plummeting costs of the equipment to generate it, a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the West's energy watchdog, said on Monday."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Public [3]
International [4]
Source: Reuters [5], 10/01/2014
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"FERC Gives Final Approval To Cove Point LNG Project" [6]

"Federal regulators approved Monday night plans for a proposed liquefied natural gas, or LNG, export terminal that would be the closest one to the Marcellus Shale region."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [9], 10/01/2014
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"Willie Nelson, Neil Young Lend Their Talents to Keystone XL Fight" [10]

"NELIGH, Neb. — Music legends Willie Nelson and Neil Young delivered Saturday on a promise to comfort opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline while also pleasing a few project supporters who ventured into a crowded Nebraska farm field."

Activism [11]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [3]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [13]
Source: Omaha World Herald [14], 09/30/2014
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"Tiny Spanish Island Nears Its Goal: 100 Percent Renewable Energy" [15]

"It actually takes quite a lot of fossil fuel power to reach the tiny Spanish island of El Hierro. You have to catch a commercial jet flight, a propeller plane and then a ferry to reach what was once the end of the known world, before Columbus set sail."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Public [3]
International [4]
Source: NPR [16], 09/30/2014
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"Dark Side of the Boom" [17]

"North Dakota’s oil rush brings cash and promise to reservation, along with drug-fueled crime"

Energy & Fuel [2]
People & Population [18]
Public [3]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [13]
Source: Wash Post [19], 09/29/2014
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"Pennyslvania DEP Admits Drilling Probe Error" [20]

"The state Department of Environmental Protection might have used incomplete and inaccurate test information to decide whether chemicals leaking from a Marcellus Shale wastewater impoundment and a drill cuttings pit contaminated a water well and springs in Washington County."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Pollution [21]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [23], 09/29/2014
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"Solar Advocates Fight Utilities Over Grid Access" [24]

"The solar power business is growing quickly in the U.S. More than 500,000 homeowners and businesses installed solar panels in just the first half of this year, according to a Solar Energy Industries Association report."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NPR [25], 09/29/2014
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"Businesses Won't Have To Return BP Spill Payouts, Federal Judge Says" [26]

"NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled that BP must stand by the agreement made with the companies it compensated for losses after the 2010 Gulf oil spill despite the oil giant saying some claims were overestimated."

Disasters [27]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: AP [28], 09/25/2014
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Pipeline Data, Maps Could Be a Reporting Resource — If Open [29]

There are many good investigative stories to be done about natural gas pipelines in your local area. You can get some maps and data about these pipelines if you try. Hard. The government is not going to help too much. One resource is the National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS), which allows the general public to see geodata on a county-by-county basis.

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Energy & Fuel [2]
Planning & Growth [31]
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Constitution Wins After Court Imposes Prior Restraint on Pipeline Safety Info [32]

As a nationwide newspaper chain probed safety threats posed to the public by gas pipelines, an Alabama court imposed prior restraint on the Montgomery Advertiser, to prevent it from publishing the Alabama Gas Corporation's safety plan, citing homeland security and trade secrets. Now a judge has ruled that the court erred in granting a temporary restraining order.

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Disasters [27]
Energy & Fuel [2]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [18]
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National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [34]
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